Monday, May 01, 2006

Students of Columbia's Writing Division

(Strange as it may sound, I know very little indeed about the Writing Division, which exists quite separately from the Department of English and Comparative Literature, though the School of the Arts does fall for various historical reasons I can't attempt to reproduce under the umbrella of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. I have no brief for either side in this case, and the only point I want to make here--which is surely entirely uncontroversial--is that it would indeed augment Columbia's MFA program in all sorts of ways if the university were able to offer much better financial aid.)

About Me

I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.